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MS. Laud Misc. 157

Summary Catalogue no.: 639

Homiliary; Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, c. 1000.

Language(s): Latin

This description is abbreviated from Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2014), pp. 516–28. For purposes of scholarly citation, reference to the printed catalogue is requested.

(fols. 1r–228v)

Homiliary.

Temporale and Sanctorale combined, from Easter to St Lawrence (10 August). 13 leaves missing at the beginning. Most homilies from the second (= Summer) cycle of the Homiliarius doctorum.

(fol. 1ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 9

(fol. 1vb)

Fer. 3 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 10

(fol. 6ra)

Fer. 4 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 11

(fol. 9rb)

Fer. 5 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 12

(fol. 15va)

Fer. 6 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 13

(fol. 19rb)

Sabb. post pascha

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia, hom. 2. 22

(fol. 25ra)

Sabb. post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 14

(fol. 26ra)

Dnca in octav. paschae

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 15

(fol. 32ra)

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae XII de pascha, hom. 12A (1A)

(fol. 33va)

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae XII de pascha, hom. 14 (3)

(fol. 37rb)

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae XII de pascha, hom. 15 (4)

(fol. 39va)

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae XII de pascha, hom. 16 (5)

(fol. 42ra)

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homiliae XII de pascha, hom. 17 (6)

(fol. 45vb)

In pascha annotina

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 16

(fol. 50rb)

Letania maior

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 17

(fol. 52ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 18

(fol. 53va)

Begins as:

Bede, Commentary on Luke, 3. 11:5–9

From fol. 54rb14 cf:

Bede, Homiliae evangelii, hom. 2. 14

(fol. 59va)

Dnca 2 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 20

(fol. 62va)

Dnca 3 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 21

(fol. 65vb)

Dnca 4 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 22

(fol. 70va)

In natale s. Philippi et Iacobi

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 23

(fol. 74rb)

Dnca 5 post pascha

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 24

(fol. 78vb)

In vigilia ascensionis dni

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 25

(fol. 82va)

In ascensione dni

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 26

(fol. 84ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 27

(fol. fol. 86va)

Bede, Homiliae evangelii, hom. 2. 15

(fol. 93ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 28

(fol. 97vb)

Dnca post ascensionem dni

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 29

(fol. 105ra)

Sabb. in pent.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 30

(fol. 111va)

Dnca pentecostes

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 33

(fol. 117va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 31

(fol. 119va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 32

(fol. 122vb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 34

(fol. 124vb)

De ieiunio post pentecosten

Leo the Great, Tractatus septem et nonaginta (= Sermones), tract. 78

(fol. 125vb)

De ieiunio quarti mensis

Leo the Great, Tractatus septem et nonaginta (= Sermones), tract. 80

(fol. 126rb)

Leo the Great, Tractatus septem et nonaginta (= Sermones), tract. 81

(fol. 127ra)

De ieiunio pentecostes

Leo the Great, Tractatus septem et nonaginta (= Sermones), tract. 79

(fol. 128ra)

In die pentecostes

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 35

(fol. 129rb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 36

(fol. 130vb)

Dnca 1 post pent.

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia, hom. 2. 40

(fol. 139va)

Dnca 2 post pent.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 38

(fol. 147ra)

Dnca 3 post pent.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 39

(fol. 157ra)

Dnca 4 post pent.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 37

(fol. 159ra)

Dnca 5 post pent.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 57

(fol. 161rb)

In vigilia s. Iohannis Baptistae

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 40

(fol. 167vb)

In natali s. Iohannis Baptistae

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 41

(fol. 169vb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 42

(fol. 170vb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 43

(fol. 171va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 44

(fol. 175vb)

In vigilia s. Petri

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 45

(fol. 180ra)

In natali s. Petri et Pauli

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 46

(fol. 182va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 47

(fol. 184va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 48

(fol. 185va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 49

(fol. 186va)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 50

(fol. 187rb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 51

(fol. 188vb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 52

(fol. 193rb)

In natale s. Pauli.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 53

(fol. 196rb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 54

(fol. 197rb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 55

(fol. 197vb)

Dnca 1 post natale apostolorum

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 58

(fol. 199vb)

Dnca 2 post natale apostolorum

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 60

(fol. 203ra)

Dnca 3 post natale apostolorum.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 61

(fol. 207vb)

Dnca 4 post natale apostolorum

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 62

(fol. 210vb)

Dnca 5 post natale apostolorum

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia, hom. 2. 39

(fol. 217rb)

Dnca 7 post natale apostolorum.

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 64

(fol. 218va)

In natale s. Iacobi

Bede, Homiliae evangelii, hom. 2. 21

(fol. 222vb)

In natale s. Laurentii

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 65

(fol. 223vb)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 66

(fol. 225ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 67

(fol. 226ra)

Paul the Deacon, Homiliarius 2. 68

(fol. 228va)

Augustine, ⟨Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis⟩, 45. 2, impf.

(fol. 228ra–vb)

Various notes, 11th-12th centuries; part of the entries neumed. Notes include an anathema, and 'Media uita' (cao 3732) with neums, of the St Gall type.

Fols. i recto-ii verso, 229r-230v blank

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (modern) + i (17th-cent.) + 229 + i (modern) leaves

Dimensions (leaf): c. 384–402 × 290–333 mm.

Foliation: i–ii, 1–230

Layout

Ruling in hard point; two columns of 26 widely-spaced lines. Ruled space c. 281–88 × 212–18 mm.

Hand(s)

Protogothic, Würzburg, Domstift, c. 1000, by several hands.

Musical Notation:

On f. 228v some neums, the St Gall type, 12th century.

Decoration

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 32, pl. IV). Würzburg, late 11th century: fols. 93r, 111v, 167v, 171v, 180r, 182v, 188v & 222v elaborate initials, sometimes with foliate decoration.

Red rubrics in rustic capitals.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639. Rust marks from clasps and bosses of a former binding.

History

Origin: Germany, Würzburg, St. Kilian ; c. 1000; decoration, 11th century, late

Provenance and Acquisition

Written in Würzburg, Domstift St Kilian, c. 1000 (Hoffmann, Südwesten, 332), originally part of a larger volume, two quires (13 leaves) missing at the beginning;

Late 12th-cent. ex-libris inscription of the Domstift, fol. 227v.

William Laud, 1573–1645: his ex libris, 1637, fol. 1r.

Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.

Record Sources

See above. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 147

Quarto Catalogue, p. 549

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 28